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Famous Claes Oldenburg Quotes
“I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.”
“The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.”
“Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.”
“I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.”
“Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.”
Source: Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970
Source: Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970
Source: Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970
“I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.”
Source: Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970